POETRY / ‘The Unnamed’ and ‘Incomplete’: Two poems
28 November 2025, 19:31 PM
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LITERARY CURTAINS / Adaptation as misrecognition: ‘Siddhartha’ between text, philosophy, and stage
28 November 2025, 19:30 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Of jasmines, departure, and desire for a déjà vu
21 November 2025, 18:28 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / The Solitude of ’69
19 November 2025, 10:28 AM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Writer in the dark
19 September 2025, 19:09 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / A visit before the journey
5 September 2025, 18:59 PM
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FICTION / The dawn’s return
5 September 2025, 18:58 PM
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Poetry / Silence, our witness
22 August 2025, 19:02 PM
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CREATIVE NONFICTION / Space between the scrolls
15 August 2025, 19:00 PM
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FICTION / Give back the forests, take away this city
8 August 2025, 19:12 PM
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What’s in a name?
He had been practising saying his name out loud every night before going to sleep so that his ears remained accustomed to hearing his own name
19 December 2023, 16:15 PM
Losing An Arm
It said, my body was no longer needed. / “This is the age of freedom. Let me go, and explore.”
18 December 2023, 15:00 PM
Mr Moti
The monsoons have passed. Moti has grown so healthy, so strong and so big that no other cocks even dare to be near him.
16 December 2023, 13:55 PM
Genocide, ecology, and Zahir’s ‘Life and Political Reality’
As we remember the joys and the agonies brought forth by 16th December 1971, we often forget or, rather, neglect the nuances embedded in the struggle
15 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Stargazing with the Bossanova man
“It’s a type of Brazilian music, this elevator is playing The Girl From Ipanema.”
14 December 2023, 15:55 PM
The sarees and the stories we inherit
For the first time, I also found myself giddy over a male protagonist from the world of my father and uncles. The character of Nadeem, Selina's boyfriend, can be best described as a "man written by a woman".
13 December 2023, 18:00 PM
We still dream of the things that Sultana dreamed of
As long as the problems addressed in Sultana’s Dream continue to exist and be relevant, we must uphold Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s work, values, and ideologies
9 December 2023, 04:54 AM
THE OTHER WAY ROUND
What makes
You a boy, me a girl;
Me a popper, you an Earl?
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Soldier amidst the blood moon: An elegy
Crimson blood splattered amongst the ravaged lands
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Ludic space for Tagore’s fictive children
An interesting concern in contemporary children’s literature criticism is the discussion of power. Do the fictive children in children’s books, conceived and delivered by the adult author, have the ability to exercise their will and possess a voice?
8 December 2023, 18:00 PM
The pond
She walked, entranced, into the water until it reached her chin, the wing of her little pink butterfly stuck out like a shark fin.
8 December 2023, 04:45 AM
Vinayeki
Oh that angelic call, yet I cannot respond. I cannot open my mouth in fear of the burning pain overpowering my senses.
4 December 2023, 05:00 AM
Hunt
Talespeople presents The Screaming Shorts, partnered with Daily Star Books and Star Literature.
3 December 2023, 12:25 PM
Baldwin in December
Baldwin was sitting right beside, smoking, killing time, thinking of love and loneliness, friendships and misfortunes. Of Martin and Malcolm.
2 December 2023, 15:56 PM
Séance In The 70's
Talespeople presents The Screaming Shorts, partnered with Daily Star Books and Star Literature
2 December 2023, 11:39 AM
121/B, East Basabo
After my death, Nana sent a notice of eviction to all the tenants.
2 December 2023, 09:06 AM
They raise their fists. Inside, I fall asleep to the sound of rain
The dumpster diver
and the plastic smoker
raised their fists. I was
in the solemn, trapped
1 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Do not allow the soldiers to kill my doll! : SIX
Dad, do you know how to build a rocket?
Seems, you do not. You know nothing.
You are good for nothing.
1 December 2023, 18:00 PM
The poem
Ratan Da walked away, waddling the way he came from, whispering, “Don’t let it go to waste, don’t let it go to waste.”
25 November 2023, 15:55 PM
We’re still alive
We’re still alive/ but they wanted to die a natural death
24 November 2023, 18:00 PM